Among the many forgotten might-have-beens of the games console world, the Atari Jaguar occupies a special place. It was the ...

Researchers at Nebula Security have disclosed GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499), a 15-year-old Linux kernel flaw that lets any ...

The Twenty-Ninth International Obfuscated C Code Contest – or IOCCC for short – is back again with the results of the 2025 competition. This year, one of the entrants has a unique new trick up their ...

LLVM powers the core development tools, operating systems, and most applications at Apple Computer, where it long ago ...

Eighteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of June 30, 2026): apl-2.0: GNU APL is a free interpreter for the programming language APL. It is an implementation of the ISO stan ...

Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's own Fedora-derived Linux distro for Azure cloud workloads. Here is how it compares to Ubuntu, ...

Buffer overflow vulnerabilities have driven remote code execution for decades and keep appearing in critical network ...

Phoronix Linux 7.2's merge window closed out a cleanup campaign on Friday that most kernel developers had stopped expecting to see end: the complete removal of strncpy(), a C string-copy function that ...

Most people can name the founders of Apple, Microsoft, Meta or Tesla. Fabrice Bellard remains largely unknown outside programming circles despite creating software that helps power much of the modern ...

The Panfrost and PanVK open-source driver stack for ARM Mali GPUs crossed a significant threshold on June 3, 2026, when a Rust-written shader compiler landed in Mesa's development tree for the first ...

Over 90% of production toolchains now rely on open-source compilers, driven by flexibility, cost efficiency, and strong community ecosystems Compilers like Rust and Zig are gaining traction for memory ...

In 1952, Grace Hopper sat in front of a UNIVAC I and got tired of copying subroutine addresses by hand. Programmers at the time wrote raw machine code, looked up memory locations from a paper library, ...